Monday, March 27, 2017

Bon Voyage Heidi!

For the past six months we have given thanks, made colorful plates, expanded our pantry, created buddha bowls, faced the day, cooked with inspiring ingredients to make picture perfect dishes, made accompaniments, and sipped our way through Heidi Swanson's recipes. It has been a fun ride while it lasted.This week we are saying Bon Voyage Heidi as we make one more dish, and/or create a roundup of our top favorite Heidi recipes! Make and post your Bon Voyage Heidi recipe by Sunday, April 2nd. Please link a picture and comment below.New to IHCC? Need help linking up or just a refresher on how to join in the fun and become a part of our community?Please check out our Welcome page. If you have any questions please leave a comment below and we will get back with you. If you missed out on ourMarch Potlucktheme last week, please click on the link to see what everyone made.

Master Chef Eric Ripert

List of Eric Ripert's Cookbooks

Monthly Featured Dish/Ingredient Event

You voted and we have a brand new theme launching as of November 2016! Instead of our Monthly Featured Chef event we will now have a new Monthly Featured Dish/Ingredient !

What does this mean?The new Monthly Featured Dish/Ingredient is a special theme where we will highlight one dish and/or one ingredient and chose a recipe from ANY of our past and/or current IHCC chef. The goal is to find the best version of that dish and/or the various ways an ingredient can be used.

Welcome!

Welcome toI ♥ Cooking Clubs. This is a stress-free cooking club with a revolving roster of chefs. We feature two different chefs (or cooks) a year and cook their recipes based on our weekly themes--found on the sidebar.

From April 1st 2018 thru September 30th 2018 we are cooking up the recipes of our featured chef,Eric Ripert This cooking club aims to grow and change with its members and explore other cooks and books in the future.Click here for more...

Now Cooking with Eric Ripert

Our IHCC Featured Chef from April 1st 2018 thru September 30th 2018!

Eric Ripert

Bio coming soon!

You Choose the Recipes!

In the interest of freedom of choice and to maximize the fun, we have organized this cooking club on themes. How you interpret the theme is up to you. If you feel that you would like nothing better than a three pound bison burger, with all the fixin's, on a spa day.. nobody will challenge you on it!

Once the theme is announced, feel free to peruseour current chef'srecipes from cookbooks or online, to find one that you think suits the theme and your tastes. Have fun with the recipe, change what you like, and link into that week's post.The only real rule is thatyou must make a dish from the current featured chef (with the exception of the monthly POTLUCK and the new Monthly Featured Dish/Ingredient).Have some great ideas for themes?We love to hear your ideas! Feel free to email any of the hosts or leave your ideas in the comments section.

July Cooking Club Themes with Eric Ripert!

July 2nd - July 8th: From the Starter Menu!(Make any Eric Ripert dish for appetizers, small plates, pupus, or anything you might find on the starter menu!)

July 9th - July 15th: Monthly Featured Ingredient/Dish Challenge- Corn!

(Make a recipe from any of our past or present IHCC chefs featuring or including CORN! (Fresh, frozen, canned, corn products like chips or tortillas or masa (corn flour), polenta, etc.) Also, feel free to share any of your favorite recipes featuring CORN from IHCC chefs in your post!)

July 16th - July 22nd:From The Garden! (Make any Eric Ripert veg-friendly dish featuring ingredients from your garden, a garden, or the produce department!)

July 23rd - July 29th: July IHCC Potluck!

(Make any Eric Ripert dish OR make any dish from any of our other IHCC chefs - your choice!)

August Cooking Club Themes with Eric Ripert!

July 30th - August 5th: From the Grill! (Make any Eric Ripert dish that you can cook outside on the grill or inside on your grill pan!)

What do you mean by Potluck?

Once a month we have a Potlucktheme week. This means that anything goes! Dinner for 10? Cocktails for two? Explore new countries and cuisines? You choose, baby!

*****As of April 2013 we changed Potluck to include all of those wonderful chefs we have cooked along with at IHCC. During any monthly Potluck week, you can cook any dish from the current chef or any dish from any former IHCC chef! (See the pages under the IHCC header or the list below for these approved chefs)

Harriet Van Horne on Cooking

“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."

Julia Child on The Art of The Plate

“It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.”

Bittman on a Well-Stocked Pantry

The most critical thing a cook can have, other than a decent knife and cutting board, is a well-stocked pantry. Because when you come home and you don't have much, but if you've got that rice, anchovies, pasta, soy sauce, vinegar...you will find something to make

Nigella on Dieting

"I don't believe in low-fat cooking."

"Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you can't reproduce with low-fat ingredients"